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I am the Web and Marketing Administrator in the School of English and Drama. Amongst my various roles, I run the School's website (www.sed.qmul.ac.uk) and its Twitter feed (@QMULsed). I also manage the running of the School's Open Days and draft promotional materials.

Here’s our latest March edition of the best events and opportunities we get sent in and outside the School.

Events

An exciting and unprecedented new MA Live Art will begin in September 2018*, convened by the Drama Department at Queen Mary University, London in collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency (LADA).

How has writing from and about South Africa travelled beyond the borders of the country? How has it made readers feel, and why might this continue to matter? Using key examples from the past 130 years, the lecture will survey the trajectory of South African writing as a category, ask how and why some texts have become well known internationally while others have not, and consider the importance of the personae that South African writers have (or been thought by readers to have) adopted, as well as the significance of the material forms that texts have taken—the guises, or indeed ‘personae’, under which they have travelled. Texts from and about South Africa—not to mention readers encountering them—have had to find ways to grapple with questions about the appropriateness or otherwise of representations of the country’s diverse people and complex politics. (Appropriate can, after all, be an adjective and a verb.) This lecture will therefore also grapple with the politics of speaking—and writing—positions, including this lecturer’s own. It will address South Africa’s often problematic place in postcolonial studies, and will argue for the continuing relevance of the study of the country’s literature here and now.

Opportunities, Calls for Participation & Volunteering

We are looking for the UK’s most motivated and talented aspiring event producers to become part of our FREE professional development programme, Young & Serious for participants aged 18-25.

Young & Serious is an exceptional opportunity for young people to build their professional network alongside career development, gaining experience of working within the arts, music and events sectors. Participants will have the chance to attend industry events, talks and workshops, work with exciting national & international artists and programme and deliver music activity. Participants will also work towards a Bronze Arts Award accreditation throughout the year.

As part of the programme, young people will be invited to take part in a FREE professional development residency in London (20th-22nd April 2018), which will form an integral part of the year long training course.

To find out more and details on how to apply to take part, please click here serious.org.uk The deadline for applications is the 26th March 2018.

Wilton’s is looking for small to mid-scale companies (graduate companies only, current student companies will not be eligible) who are creating a piece of new work and would like to enter the Wilton’s Edinburgh Festival Award 2018 scheme.

We are looking for work that will have not have been produced before the Edinburgh Festival, which is new, exhilarating and fits in with Wilton’s mission to produce world-class original, contemporary theatre.